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Pham Nuwen posted:We are literally putting radium up our assholes here. How, with what, and why? Not kinkshaming, just confused (apparently we are all literally doing it) e: Monkey Fracas posted:When the X-Ray was in it's infancy as a technology people would have parlor parties where they would gently caress around with unshielded X-Ray machines, exposing themselves to untold amounts of radiation. E.g., Tesla and Mark Twain "Look! I can see the bones in my head! Now everyone else give it a go!" http://www.studio360.org/2012/jan/27/tesla-and-twain/ 
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Speaking of old books, and household cleaning, I came across a book from 1970 about what life might be like in the distant future of the year 2000. I wish I'd scanned some of the pages because it speculated that, for example, everything in the home would be waterproof and the housewife would do all her cleaning by just spraying a garden hose around.  Miracles You’ll See In The Next Fifty Years (Feb, 1950) A fascinating article. Among other things, coal illegal, Atomic power too inefficent, so natural gas+solar for power plants, disposable houses, etc.  (note the family helicopter in the upper right) joat mon has a new favorite as of 06:52 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Looking at those pictures reminded me of another obsolete car tech: good times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRUGKExVL6g&t=2m37s Monkey Fracas posted:So you still have to manually put on your seatbelt and there's a possibility of equipment failure that would render the single most important safety device in the car less than optimally operational? How did these things happen again? e: with intrusive knee bolsters to 'solve' the no lap belt issue. Zeether posted:There was a specific car model I've seen that had "disappearing" doors as stock which would just sink down into the chassis. Wish that had caught on. BMW Z1. joat mon has a new favorite as of 22:09 on Aug 14, 2013 |
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WebDog posted:The French had some curious ideas back then. My second computer was a Kaypro II:  
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